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Contagious Holiness: Jesus’ Meals with Sinners is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of humanity’s most basic and common practices—eating meals—was transformed by Jesus into an occasion of divine encounter. In sharing food and drink with His companions, He invited them to share in the grace of God. He revealed His redemptive mission while eating with sinners, repentant and unrepentant alike. Jesus’ “table fellowship” with sinners in the Gospels has been widely agreed to be...

Prominent as is the role dining plays in the Hebrew Bible, there are surprisingly few sustained studies of the topic. Dictionary and encyclopedia articles often helpfully survey selections of references, under headings such as ‘meal customs’ or ‘eating and drinking’ (see esp. Schramm 1992; Jenks 1993). Books on life in biblical Israel typically have short sections on topics like hospitality, furniture, food preparation,
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